Africa

• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - General election: "No to abstention," say the Bishops, the Church participates with its observers Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - There will be observers of the Catholic Church to ensure the proper conduct of the general elections on August 31 in Angola. The observer team is coordinated by Fr. Belmiro Tchissengueti, Executi ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Church’s appeal to help the victims of the torrential rains Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is mobilizing to bring material and moral support to the victims of the floods that for days have been scourging Senegal and at the same time launches an appeal to the universa ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/BENIN - Inauguaration of the first "mini-village of the Child", dedicated to St. Massimiliano M. Kolbe Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - After the apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Benin last November, one of the concrete answers to the special attention addressed by the Holy Father to the children, as the hope of the entir ...
• 28 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Maybe tomorrow the agreement for the Marikana mine " says to Fides the Bishop of Rustenburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Maybe tomorrow, August 29th, there will be the signing of an agreement between the unions and the managers of the platinum mine in Marikana (North West Province, in South Africa). This wa ...
• 28 August 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Four Christian places of worship attacked in the clashes in Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of clashes in Mombasa, Kenya, between police and protesters demanding the killing of an Islamic preacher, Aboud Rogo Mohammed, accused of recruiting young people to be sent to fig ...
• 27 August 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - State of national emergency for the worst cholera outbreak in recent years Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - West Africa is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in recent years. In Sierra Leone, home to six million people assisted by one of the worst health care systems in the world, with only one ...
• 27 August 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Missionary experience of the Youth Movement to Build Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary journey in Guinea Bissau has just concluded, attended by 12 young Italians belonging to the Youth Movement to Build accompanied by three assistants, two Missionary Oblates of Mary ...
• 27 August 2012
  AFRICA - The African Catholics worried due to fundamentalist violence, they do not want to respond with violence Iaşi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics of African Countries where the threat of Islamic fundamentalism is stronger, live this phenomenon with apprehension, but do not intend to surrender to violence. This is what is reported ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A difficult phase for the succession of Premier Zenawi begins Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "After the death of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abuna Paulos (on 16August), the death of the Premier is a new shock to the Country," say local sources to Fides from Addis ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Decisive moment to rebuild the Somali State," says the Bishop of Djibouti Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "In these 21 years (since the fall of Siad Barre, ed.) it seems that this is the best time for the rebirth of the Somali State. Certainly we are facing a critical phase in the history of Somal ...
• 20 August 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The bishops contrary to defining Zambia in the constitutional preamble as a "Christian nation" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)-The Bishops of Zambia hope that the current process of constitutional revision is successful after the previous three unsuccessful attempts to write a new Constitution. In a document sent to the t ...
• 13 August 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA- Christian Association in Nigeria of 19 states ask for the resignation of the President Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Armed men attacked the All Saints Catholic Church, in the State of Gombe, in Nigeria on Sunday, August 12, killing one policeman on duty who was protecting the place of worship. According to tes ...
• 13 August 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Government reshuffle: President Mursi consolidates his power Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On August 12 Egypt's president Mohamed Mursi ordered a reshuffle of the government, which led to the retirement of the Minister of Defense, Marshal Hussein Tantawi, hitherto considered the "stro ...
• 11 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 16,000 returnees at risk for lack of funds on behalf of humanitarian organizations Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 16,000 southern Sudanese returnees stuck in the Upper Nile State are at risk after the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced its intention to suspend operations for ...
• 11 August 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Uncertain situation in Bamako while in the north the population suffers the oppression of Islamists Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The political crisis continues in Mali with the return of President ad interim Dioncounda Traore. As Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference in Mali reports to Fides, th ...